Jessica C. Jones‐Smith

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Jessica C. Jones‐Smith is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Jessica C. Jones‐Smith has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 51 papers in General Health Professions and 20 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Jessica C. Jones‐Smith's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (78 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (31 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (20 papers). Jessica C. Jones‐Smith is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (78 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (31 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (20 papers). Jessica C. Jones‐Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Canada. Jessica C. Jones‐Smith's co-authors include Barry M. Popkin, Manuel Franco, Laura K. Cobb, Cheryl A.M. Anderson, Lawrence J. Appel, Arjumand Siddiqi, Vanessa M. Oddo, Joel Gittelsohn, Yichen Jin and Lia C. H. Fernald and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Jessica C. Jones‐Smith

101 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The relationship of the local food environment with obesity: A systematic review of methods, study quality, and results

2015 394 citations Laura K. Cobb, Lawrence J. Appel et al. Obesity profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jessica C. Jones‐Smith United States	25	1.8k	834	516	333	271	105	2.7k
Oyinlola Oyebode United Kingdom	24	708 0.4×	536 0.6×	396 0.8×	253 0.8×	115 0.4×	94	2.6k
Thandi Puoane South Africa	32	1.5k 0.9×	933 1.1×	542 1.1×	190 0.6×	167 0.6×	121	3.5k
Jamie F. Chriqui United States	35	2.3k 1.3×	1.7k 2.0×	367 0.7×	167 0.5×	295 1.1×	177	4.2k
Yevgeniy Goryakin United Kingdom	18	751 0.4×	619 0.7×	189 0.4×	298 0.9×	274 1.0×	32	2.0k
Ashlesha Datar United States	25	1.5k 0.9×	594 0.7×	301 0.6×	172 0.5×	206 0.8×	80	2.7k
Frank van Lenthe Netherlands	20	1.7k 0.9×	968 1.2×	205 0.4×	724 2.2×	477 1.8×	36	3.0k
Tamara Dubowitz United States	32	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.4×	227 0.4×	738 2.2×	576 2.1×	110	3.4k
Ana Diez Roux United States	18	1.6k 0.9×	902 1.1×	210 0.4×	618 1.9×	605 2.2×	42	3.1k
Kimberly B. Morland United States	20	2.9k 1.6×	1.3k 1.6×	378 0.7×	692 2.1×	1.1k 3.9×	32	4.8k
Joseph R. Sharkey United States	30	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	458 0.9×	296 0.9×	179 0.7×	94	2.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jessica C. Jones‐Smith

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Jones‐Smith, Jessica C., et al.. (2025). Universal Free School Meals and Child Body Mass Index: Impact among children in community-based healthcare organizations. Health Affairs Scholar. 3(8). qxaf144–qxaf144. 1 indexed citations

Liese, Angela D., Ali M Alfalki, Catherine Pihoker, et al.. (2025). The Association of Levels of Food Insecurity and Disordered Eating Behaviors Among Youth and Young Adults With Diabetes: The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 58(6). 1039–1047.

Zhuang, Castiel Chen, Jessica C. Jones‐Smith, Sarah B. Andrea, Anjum Hajat, & Vanessa M. Oddo. (2023). Maternal precarious employment and child overweight/obesity in the United States. Preventive Medicine. 169. 107471–107471. 7 indexed citations

Oddo, Vanessa M., et al.. (2022). Evaluation of Seattle’s sweetened beverage tax on tax support and perceived economic and health impacts. Preventive Medicine Reports. 27. 101809–101809. 3 indexed citations

Oddo, Vanessa M., Philip M. Hurvitz, Anita Rocha, et al.. (2022). The Availability and Price of Healthy Food in Seattle by Neighborhood Sociodemographic Characteristics. Preventing Chronic Disease. 19. E77–E77. 4 indexed citations

Jones‐Smith, Jessica C., Vanessa M. Oddo, Marian L. Neuhouser, et al.. (2020). Impact of a sweetened beverage tax on beverage prices in Seattle, WA. Economics & Human Biology. 39. 100917–100917. 24 indexed citations

Marcinkevage, Jessica, et al.. (2020). Qualitative Study on Participant Perceptions of a Supermarket Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Program. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 121(8). 1497–1506. 17 indexed citations

Popkin, Barry M., et al.. (2020). Is the burden of overweight shifting to the poor across the globe? Time trends among women in 39 low- and middle-income countries (1991–2008). UNC Libraries. 1 indexed citations

Yamada, Goro, Jessica C. Jones‐Smith, Carlos Castillo‐Salgado, & Lawrence H. Moulton. (2019). Differences in magnitude and rates of change in BMI distributions by socioeconomic and geographic factors in Mexico, Colombia, and Peru, 2005–2010. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 74(3). 472–480. 7 indexed citations

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Lowery, Caitlin M., Vanessa M. Oddo, Kristen M. Hurley, et al.. (2019). Maternal Employment and Children’s Dietary Diversity Scores in Southwestern Guatemala (P10-039-19). Current Developments in Nutrition. 3. nzz034.P10–39. 2 indexed citations

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Trude, Angela, Anna Kharmats, Jessica C. Jones‐Smith, & Joel Gittelsohn. (2018). Exposure to a multi-level multi-component childhood obesity prevention community-randomized controlled trial: patterns, determinants, and implications. Trials. 19(1). 287–287. 15 indexed citations

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Rehkopf, David H., et al.. (2018). The impact of a private sector living wage intervention on consumption and cardiovascular disease risk factors in a middle income country. BMC Public Health. 18(1). 179–179. 4 indexed citations

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Kramer, Michael R., Eric B. Schneider, J. Kane, et al.. (2017). Getting Under the Skin: Children’s Health Disparities as Embodiment of Social Class. Population Research and Policy Review. 36(5). 671–697. 18 indexed citations

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Wong, Michelle S., Kitty S. Chan, Jessica C. Jones‐Smith, et al.. (2017). The neighborhood environment and obesity: Understanding variation by race/ethnicity. Preventive Medicine. 111. 371–377. 49 indexed citations

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Wong, Michelle S., Jessica C. Jones‐Smith, Elizabeth Colantuoni, et al.. (2017). The Longitudinal Association Between Early Childhood Obesity and Fathers’ Involvement in Caregiving and Decision‐Making. Obesity. 25(10). 1754–1761. 25 indexed citations

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Kodish, Stephen, et al.. (2016). Food Environments around American Indian Reservations: A Mixed Methods Study. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0161132–e0161132. 21 indexed citations

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Cobb, Laura K., et al.. (2015). The relationship of the local food environment with obesity: A systematic review of methods, study quality, and results. Obesity. 23(7). 1331–1344. 394 indexed citations breakdown →

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Oddo, Vanessa M. & Jessica C. Jones‐Smith. (2015). Gains in income during early childhood are associated with decreases in BMI z scores among children in the United States. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 101(6). 1225–1231. 16 indexed citations

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Jones‐Smith, Jessica C., Lynnette M. Neufeld, Barbara Laraia, et al.. (2013). Early life growth trajectories and future risk for overweight. Nutrition and Diabetes. 3(2). e60–e60. 41 indexed citations

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Jones‐Smith, Jessica C., et al.. (2011). Emerging disparities in overweight by educational attainment in Chinese adults (1989–2006). International Journal of Obesity. 36(6). 866–875. 67 indexed citations

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